The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-03-18
NO. 27.
oE GENERAL INTEREST.

The increase in the number of pas
sengers carried on the street railroads
in Philadelphia in 1886 over 1885 was
II, ,O3O,017.
Maps published by the Geological
Survey of New Jersey give Sandy Hook
four times as great an area as in the
year 1886, when an outline survey was
made.
There are two titles in this coun-
| try-the Electoral Count and Sir Plus.
Several European monarchies would
like to have the latter.-P Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
When the handsome Mr.. Glover
plays it the ladies fade away from the
room as softly as a poets dream from
a woodchopper's memory and the soul
of music expires in the wood-boX.
Among the multitude of epitaphs
that have been engraved on tombstones,
did any one ever sec this? "Heworked
for living" And yet what could be
more honorable than thatP-Teras
| SJtings
The valuable violin which a
drunken heel went through on the
night of the dance at the ''widder's"
has been so cleverly repaired by Cash
Macy that it sounds better than ever
Long Greek (Ore.) Republican.
Among the latest developments of
woman s capacity in business is a Wom-
ans National Lecture Bureau, with its
headquarters at Chicago, managing for
women lecturers altogether. 1t is not
an inferior or unknown list of lecturers
either that it puts forth.
A Berrien County man arrived in
Quitman on Friday last with cartload
of possums. They were large and fat
and showed that they had been well
fed in Berrien. The possum trade is
in its infancy, but we shall foster it
with care.-Quitndn (Ga.) Free Press.
"A Pennsylvania girl who was
whirled eight hundred times around a
main shaft and got out of it without
any serious injury, says she felt as if
she was sliding down long hill on a
hand-sled, and was in a delicious frame
of mind. The toboggan must co.
petroH Free Press.
One of the most expensive works
architects now have in hand is the new
! Congress Hall for Buenos Ayres. This
four years. 1t is to be in the Renais-
sance style, its dimensions being l,200
| feet by 900 feet. The site covers
twenty acres in the best part Of the
city.
The meanest man in the country
has just left the Black Hills region
! He entered into CORRESPONDENCE with a
young woman in New York, whose adj
dress he had learned through matri-
monial agency, and finally proposed
marriage. She accepted him and went
| to Dakota to be his wife The night be-
fore she came he vamooscd. When
! last heard from he was running for the
wilds of Montana.
DR.. j. Stuart Marine, of the Glas-
gov Samaritan Hospital for Women,
has recorded several instances i'm his
practice in which the use of fish boiled
or fried, as food, by patients, even
when considerably advanced in con-
valescence, was followed 10y evil cOnse-
quences, and he has begun to believe
that, under any circumstances of de
| bility, fish was a very dangerous diet
and forbade its -P0pNtdr Science
monthly.
Mr.. j. G. Bayles, editor Of the iron
Age, advances the curious theory that
all traps should be omitted in the sewer
system connected with houses. The
trap, he insists, is little cesspool,
which interferes with the free flow of
air and wat4R and so of flush. The
true remedy Tor sewer gas, he thinks,
is fresh air inlets. If these abound, he
says, there will be no riskful gas, and
mo trap" will be one of the sanitary
advances of the day.
"A recent writer states that the
senses are not parallel in men and
women. The latter possess to greater
perfection the sense of touch. The
senses Of hearing and sight are rela-
lively the same in both sexes, but it is
considered that men have the sense Of
taste more delicatcly developed than
women. The sense Of smell was in
the experiments made doubly as acute
in men as in women. No reason is rs
signed for the distinction.
In 1870 Mary Byrne, "a girl Of ten
years, was run over by the New York
Central d. Hudson River Railroad cars
while crossing an alley in Troy, N. Y,
and one of her legs was so badly
crushed as to necessitate amputation
above the knee on two occasions. The
company was sued, and she got veG-
diet of $4,000. This was set aside by
the Court of Appeals. New trials re-
suited, until lately the highest court
sustained a verdict Of 81, 800 in her be
half.
A well posted railway man says.
that the obligatory footing Of loco
motive on the New York, New Haven
e. Hartford railroad, in an ordinary
days run, involves waste of steam
requiring the consumption Of 280
pounds Of coal To renew He estimates
the whistling expenses of that particu-
lar railway at $15. 900 per year. There
is a similar waste in the blowing of the
whistles of stationary and steamboat
engines. II is matter worth the Sc
rious study of practical railroad men.
whether they can not devise cheaper
noise with which to give notice Of the
approach Of trains TO stations and grade
crossings.
Some one once asked John Jacob
AstOr about the largest sum Of money
he ever made at any one time in his
life. He said in reply: The largest
sum ever missed making was in refer
ence to the purchase of Louisiana in
connection with Dewitt Clinton,
j5oueverneur Morris. and others. We
intended to purchase all Of that pro%-
ince of the Emperor Napoleon and then
snll IL to President jefferson at the same